Description

HB-Unlisted EP-Unlisted 10¢ Experimental or Trial Piece Silver
Case About New. Lot 639 from Stack's sale of the Western
Collection in June of 2004. Previously from the FCC Boyd
Collection. Stack's description read, in part, "The case is sound,
and deeply toned in rich coin silver gray shade. The two-piece case
being quite different from the Regular Issue Gault type, not only
because it is made apparently in silver, but also because the back
has been closed in a different fashion. Unique and unpublished
before now." As with the other Experimentals offered here, no one
knows their exact origin. This cataloguer has always believed them
to be trial pieces or pre-production encasements made for Gault, by
either Scoville or another manufacturer that he had been
considering for production. In any event, an extraordinarily
important rarity.